Grand River Transit

[jeffster]

Is TriTAG dead?

Effectively yes. It was sustained on a core (and largely unchanging) group of volunteers, who a decade ago were young and didn't have a lot of obligations. Now people have families, careers, etc, but we were never successful enough in bringing in new people.

There is currently some discussion about what could be done to revive it, had our first meeting in years last week. But it's still not clear if there's enough people with the time.

This sort of gives you the answer on why transit sucks so bad in this region. People have family. People have careers. Transit can't be part of that because how badly mismanaged it is. It's run by a bunch of clowns.

My son couldn't finish his high school because the GRT cancelled routes due to road construction (affected him for 2 years). The walk was 3,196 meters, just 4 meters short of eligibility of 3.2 km and it is a hard cutoff with STSWR.

Recently, my car broke down (long story short, the last oil change I had, dealership put too much oil in, being this car is a Plug-In Hybrid, I hadn't used the engine until a longer trip that I took), and realized quickly that a bus was not an option - involving about 30 minutes of walk, and 60 minutes of bus, for a relatively short distance. So I took my kids scooter. Also took the scooter to the dealership, as that was going to be a 2 hour affair, but took 20 minutes on the scooter.

Years ago, when transit was more centralized, most trips could be done within 60 minutes or so. Now it's disorganized and takes a lot long longer, making it useless for day-to-day life.